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Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 23/12/11

December 23, 2011 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

I hope you’ve had a great week year!

Don’t miss out on your weekly fix of SQL Server Links, community news and technology banter. Subscribe to the Blog Feed now to ensure you catch all posts. You can also receive posts via Email.

Keeping things short and sweet for this weeks round-up then as we’ve all got final preparations to get done and families to go to.  I’m sure many of you are either already on vacation or today is your final day before heading off for the holiday weekend. If you’re on call I empathise with you and hope that we have a very quiet few days :-)

Whatever you get up to I wish you a very Merry Christmas and I hope you have a fantastic holiday. Thanks for reading and I’ll see you next year. Cheers!

Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy!

Christmas Tree

Wishing you a Merry Christmas!

SQL Server Links

  • Undocumented Gotchas of Transactional Replication – Robert L. Davis(Blog|Twitter)
  • 7 Mistakes You Can’t Afford To Make When Upgrading to SQL 2012 – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter)
  • SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (December 2011) – Glenn Berry (Blog|Twitter)
  • 2011 Blog Post Wrap Up – Denny Cherry (Blog|Twitter)
  • Silent CPU Killers – Jeremiah Peschka (Blog|Twitter)
  • 12 Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012 – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter)
  • Using Dynamic Values in XMLA – Robert L. Davis(Blog|Twitter)
  • A faster CHECKDB – Part I – CSS SQL Server Engineers (Blog)
  • Consulting Lines: SQL Server Needs a Dog – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)

UK SQL Server Upcoming Events

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Misc Technology Posts

  • Building Social Software for the Anti-Social
  • Gardens of Time beats Cityville in Facebook games list
  • AMD claims ‘world’s fastest GPU’ title

Have you read a post this week that you think deserves a mention? Be sure to let me and other readers know by leaving a comment. You can also reach me on email and find me on Twitter(@JohnSansom).

Have a fantastic holiday weekend and I will see you next year!


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About John Sansom

I’m a Microsoft Certified Master(MCM) of SQL Server. I’ve been working with database technology in a variety of flavors for over fifteen years. I absolutely love what I do and genuinely feel privileged to be a part of our tremendous technology community. Got a question about SQL Server or being a DBA? Ask me!

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